Taken Over
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Marriage for a merger...
Joel Howard - arrogant, self-assured and all too aware of his sexual magnetism - reminded Cassie of the unliklihood of anyone ever loving her.
She would rather have sold her soul to the devil than ally herself with him. So she entertained a proposal from his closest competitor, dangerously underestimating Joel's desire to take over her London-based computer-games company.
"There's only one way I can be sure of your loyalty," Joel told her, "and that's by buying it, the same way Peter Williams intended to buy it - by marrying you."
